On this day (October 4) in the year 1853, the following item appeared in
the "Boston Daily Evening Transcript":
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ARRESTED BY MEANS OF A DAGUERREOTYPE. A few days since a man named
William Allen, who had been boarding at Market Hotel, Portland street, left
without paying his board. The landlord on examining his trunk, found a
number of coining tools and his miniature. The latter was given to a
police officer, who succeeded by means of it in arresting him, and he was
committed for trial. He is suspected of being engaged with a gang of
counterfeiters.
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Posted for your enjoyment. Gary W. Ewer
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10-04-96